“Current shifts in technology and business drive changes that will impact how we think about backups. So, what might data backup strategies look like in five years?

We can study the changes occurring today to help set some expectations of what backup life will be in 2025. Let’s start with a few predictions by industry analyst firm IDC to set the 2025 stage:

• The total amount of data created worldwide will be approximately 175 zettabytes.
• About 30% of all data created will be done in real time.
• About 60% of the 175 zettabytes will be created by enterprise organizations.
• About half of the world’s stored data will reside in the public cloud.”

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